nap strike

Hailey has gone on a nap strike. Never in her 18 months has she ever gone on a complete strike. Sure we have had our difficulties, but eventually we get her to sleep or move around/consolidate her nap schedule to make it work. Well, yesterday she woke up at her usual (on the weekend) around 6:30am. We got up, ate breakfast, played a little and went to put her back down around 8:30am, but she would have none of that. When on strike she doesn't scream and cry, to the contrary, she laughs, plays, sings and melts my heart, by saying ... momma, momma ... dadda, dadda. Well, we played this little game for awhile and gave up because she was in such a great mood. Around noon we went out for lunch and she slept in the car for about 15min and then when we got home, we let her play and around 3pm we tried this nap thing again. Nope, still on strike ... laughing, playing, singing ... momma ... What can one do?!

I tried just letting her play, nope, I tried rocking and singing to her, nope - heck she starts singing with me (I need a new song that she doesn't know :-) So we got her up and took her to Rex' birthday party! Happy Birthday Rex! She actually did great and just started acting really tired about 7pm. Today was a little different because I was at work, but she fought naps again. Morning nap with daddy, afternoon at Nana's. Finally around 4:45pm once I was home she fell asleep, but now its 5:15p and I think I need to wake her up so she will sleep tonight!

On her normal schedule during the week she gets up at 6:15a, goes back down around 7:30a at Nana's house and sleeps till between 9-10am, then takes another nap around 3pm (when I am home from work) till about 4:30pm, then bed by 8pm. Maybe its time to start working out a new schedule ... lets see how the rest of the week goes.